Orbital - Classic or Dud?

'times fly (fast)' is the best fake jungle track ever.

YES YES YES YES YES (except maybe "Are We Here?")

"Are We Here" wins.

Enrique I was going to suggest you take this to the fake jungle thread but I note that you already did 2 years ago.

i remember hearing 'Times Fly' for first time and feeling half 'wow this is great (sped up)' and half 'nooooo, bandwagon'

oh tim that has really upset me. i am senile :(

Help - what's the title of their track the first couple of minutes of which is slightly Philip Glass-sounding piano loops without a beat? I just have it listed as ? in my itunes.

Er... Science Friction? if it's 5:04 long.

Nah, 9.27!

I mean Kein Trink Wasser... and yeah that's 9:20something

lurrrrve that track

Thanks! Yeah, it's great.

Heh, been wondering what that track was for years now, thanks!

Do you people not have Snivilisation?!

I've only got a clutch of Orbital songs that a mate burned for me way back - keep meaning to rectify this but haven't got round to it.

Get the following albums IMMEDIATELY:

Orbital 2 (Brown Album)
Snivilization
In Sides
The Middle Of Nowhere

Those four are essential listening; the others all rank from very good to great but these four are just completely unimpeachable.

^ OTM!

Yep. Well except for the others all rank from very good to great... The Altogether?

I've always maintained that The Altogether is a very good album. Listening to it again over the weekend reaffirmed that belief.

Having said that, it's probably their most-skippable.

tbh if you're gonna get two then In Sides and Middle Of Nowhere are absolutely absolutely essential. and if it's one SONG then "out there somewhere (pt.2)" is yer poison.

I can't say it better than Dan just did.

middle of nowhere sucked

rong

it was pretty clear from the saint theme single and most of In Sides they had their waterskis on and were ready to go but I held out hope and then WHOOSH right up the ramp and through the air

middle of nowhere is fucking brilliant dude

Ha! I skipped the Altogether apparently. Didn't even realize it existed until now. I guess Middle of Nowhere really did make me lose interest until the last album!

Just bought In Sides off iTunes.

Middle of Nowhere didn't outright suck, though, I just found it mediocre. Too mediocre for them.

Wise move, chap. Now don't forget Orbital 2 (the Brown album).

The Brown Album is great, though a lot of my love for it is down to, you know, memories of happy times. I'm thinking in particular of that concert in The Point where I was entertaining a cousin I barely knew who couldn't understand why everyone was so friendly. Great days, Gay, great days.

Most of the albums are very, very good as everyone's saying. This would also be a great starting point (for the total Orbital newcomer, at least) as it contains a bunch of good album tracks and more. Just avoid the Kirk Hammett collaboration, which i think is track 4 or 5:

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The first four-five tracks on The Middle of Nowhere are fucking amazing.

Still, Snivilization is better.

And then In Sides is better still

^^^^exactly

The first four-five tracks on The Middle of Nowhere

this is, like, most of the album, and even then "nothing left" is good IMO and i chill with "style"

tru "in sides" is boss tho

I love "Style" but I'm not forcing that on anyone.

I think "Nothing Left" is pretty overrated, esp. when compared to the 1-2-3 KO of the first 3 tracks.

yeah but you're comparing it with flat-out brilliance

the main synth-line of "Know Where to Run", especially the bend and stutter at 5:35... oh man.

actually I marginally prefer "i don't know you people" to "know where to run" and "otono" is wonderful too, it's more like a 1-2-3-4-5 KO

Sometimes "Otono" is my favorite song on the album.

'nothing left' is one of their best ever tracks. and it's two tracks. and the opening track is golden. i used to think it wasn't that hot... but it is.

I'm not gonna fight you on that. "Nothing Left" isn't bad, it's just that I adore the first three songs on that album so much it's a little frightening.

Well I just listened to the whole album from tracks 3-8 (first two extremely familar/no need) and I didn't notice a dip in enjoyment during the last three. If anything, the vocal sample in Style and subsequent drum build actually enhanced my pleasure.

Although when I now listen to "Way Out ->" I'll probably recant. ;)